No dog food today – the Linux Foundation annual report

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19 points·BerkhanBerkdemi··7 comments

feels like slashdot 20yr ago. Someone make a "hot grits" joke.

Seriously who cares that whoever assembled a publication intended for the public for the foundation did so using a normal professional process and toolkit? Put another way, if they showed spiritual purity and produced something nice with TeX etc would that make the news the report contains any better? How about 7bit ASCII?

People care, but it’s not necessarily the fault of the Linux foundation that good design software is lacking on the platform, either FOSS or proprietary.

LINUX FOUNDATION HIRING: graphics designer

Must know difference between Linux and GNU/Linux. Experience with command line necessary.

There used to be an old saying that Apple used Cray Supercomputers to build Macs, and Cray used Macs to build Crays.

It was probably true. The industrial design and engineering of the hardware could have been done on a Cray, and the communications and email necessary for designing a Cray, could have been done with Macs.

Use the best tool for the job.

Back in the days when Adobe’s main design offering was still Pagemaker, they produced all of their product documentation with FrameMaker, before they bought that (and then killed the Mac and Unix versions, curse them).

Both are closed source, proprietary products for different purposes. Apple does not sell Macs to do supercomputing and Cray did not sell Crays to do desktop publishing. So nothing wrong here.

But Linux foundation tells everyone that open source is the way to go. From phone over desktop to supercomputing. So using a Mac is certainly not in line with the message they are paid for to spread.

Entirely possible they engaged an agency to create the report...

That would explain the choice of tools and Shutterstock.

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